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This was my second time at Art in the Pen in Skipton so I knew what I had in store in terms of set-up etc. This year I was further up the aisle and until I arrived wouldn't know what the lighting would be like in that area.

Art in the Pen is held in an auction market so isn't designed to be a gallery. Some areas of the big shed are particularly dark, whilst others are smellier!

Since Jack and Ig moved in, the house now smells a lot more. The toilet seat is always left down as Ig has a tendency to fall in it and we have discovered that it's not just Andrex puppies who like toilet rolls. 

Over the last 3 years I have been painting a series called God's Own. They were very much inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire landscape with rolling green hills and dark brooding skies. Most of them were painted with oil on canvas and the largest being 1m x 1m.

I tend to use oil and pigment sticks when I'm starting a painting to get some initial marks down on the paper but they can also be used to work into a painting. The painting does need to be somewhat dry in order to transfer your marks and ensure you are not just moving paint about.

When I first approach April at the Craft House in Saltaire last year about running some workshops with her neither of us anticipated how popular they would be.  We are now fully booked until June 2019 and have recently launched some new dates to take us up to the end of 2019!

So pleased to have my work included in this fantastic book featuring 50 awesome female writers, poets and artists. The book will be released in October 2018 in a timely publication that marks the centenary year of women’s suffrage.